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FarmVille

 

FarmVille is a real-time farm simulation game developed by Zynga, available as an application on the social-networking website Facebook and as an App on the Apple iPhone. The game allows members of Facebook to manage a virtual farm by planting, growing and harvesting virtual crops and trees, and raising livestock. - source (wikipedia)

 

Developer : Zynga

Publisher : Facebook

Designer: Mark Skaggs

Engine : Adobe Flash

Platform : Internet, iOS

Genre(s):Simulation, RPG

Mode(s):Single-player with multiplayer interaction

 

This thread is to discuss about Firm ville (mostly) and other similar kind of games ..

 

/// Haters and Trollers are most welcomed

 

Some of Amazing facts of firmville : (source )

 

  • The most popular application in the history of facebook
  • 62 million user online
  • FarmVille players outnumber real farmers in the US by a ratio of 60 to 1.
  • There is actually a Facebook group devoted to hating FarmVille. How could they? It has seventeen thousand members
  • Almost $1 billion dollars will be spent on virtual goods (like FarmVille seeds or fuel) this year.
  • On an average day, FarmVille players purchase 500,000 tractors. John Deere, the biggest US manufacturer of real tractors sell around 5000 a year,
  • Farmville developer Zynga is currently valued at 5 billion dollars, up 500% from a 1 billion valuation in Dec 2009.(source)
  • The entire application runs off a LAMP stack using only open-source services, even for metrics and profiling.(source)
  • The Farmville-Facebook pipeline pushes data at an incredible 3 Gigabits per second, with usage spikes of upto 50%(source).
  • There is an actual town named Farmville in Virginia with a population of 7,396 (in 2008). There is also a Farmville in North Carolina. (source)
  • FarmVille only had five weeks of development before going live on Facebook. And no Zynga game has ever taken longer than six months to complete. (source)
  • Zynga's development team for FarmVille and other social games consists of roughly 25% women, which is more than on a typical team. (source)
  • Aside from Facebook, FarmVille is also now playable on Microsoft's MSN Games (although it requires a Facebook account). (source)

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